CVE-2017-7228
N/A
Published: April 4, 2017 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:23 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
An issue (known as XSA-212) was discovered in Xen, with fixes available for 4.8.x, 4.7.x, 4.6.x, 4.5.x, and 4.4.x. The earlier XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside of the guest provided input/output arrays.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (8)
x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/04/3Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3847VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97375x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qsb-029-2017.txtx_refsource_MISCTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/pandavirtualization-exploiting-xen.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-129
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